Verdant Recordings

Non-Compliant

by DarkateK

Digital EP 4 Tracks and limited dub plate edition

scheduled release 27 Nov 2026

1) Non-Compliant

2) Only NPCs

3) +Bolas

4) Needing Space

DarkateK is a Lisbon-born electronic music producer and DJ whose sound spans electro, breaks, acid and techno, creating atmospheric soundscapes and into darker, industrial rhythms.

Active in electronic music since the early 1990s, DarkateK developed his sound through years spent immersed in the underground music of Lisbon and Brighton, UK. His productions have appeared on respected underground labels including Naked Lunch, T1 Music, Ovelha Trax and Elberec. More recent releases include work for Bass Agenda Recordings and Ancient Technologies. A friendship between Andy of Verdant Recordings and Nuno has grown through their involvement and with Freerotation and a mutual respect for each others tastes in left field field techno. Some tracks were shared over the autumn and without a hesitation this EP was formed.

Known for his eclectic approach, inventive production methods and uncompromising underground aesthetic, DarkateK’s sound flows between the boundaries of electro, broken beats and techno but engages with subtle melodies and radiant moods. In the studio the tracks are recorded as live takes merging elements of on the fly synthesis and intricate programming.

Non-Compliant EP kicks hard but with elegance and poise - early listeners have drawn comparisons with Ilian Tape, Boris Bunnik, Monolake and the best of the Hartnoll Brothers.

https://verdantrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/non-compliant

@Darkatek

Verdant Recordings 2026

Returning home early this morning from a reunion of Thunder's finest and remembering Paul I was feeling a little nostalgic and needed some deep tunes. Starting with classic Leonid this improvised set leant into the sounds of of the Estimulo show around 2014-2017 and particular the new wave of abstract deep house around then and from many of the Djs and producers that were listening to the shows. Good times, honest and pure deep music!

Leonid /Resting II (Statik Entertainment)

!nterject!on /Her Blissful Solitude (Verdant)

Anton Zap /Velo (Ethereal Sound)

Linkwood /Nae Drama (Night Theatre)

Keithy Worthy /The Dark Symphony (Aesthetic Audio)

Miles Sagnia /Soul Hive (Aesthetic Audio)

Raiders of the Lost Arp /On & On [Patrice Scott Sistrum Remix] (Curle)

Aybee /Heart of the Sun (Deepblak)

Miruga /Predic (Four Real)

Taelue /Rogue Acces Point (Perpetual Rhythms)

Lapien /Days Lost (Finale Sessions)

Brad Peterson /Ice Planets (Inner Shift Music)

Owen Jay & Brian James /Mockmoon (Batti Batti)

Hinode /Metamorphosis (Science Fiction)

Vakula /Lbeat (Downbeat Black Series)

Innerspace Halflife /Metamorphosis (Episodes)

Amir Alexander /Idiot Savant (Vanguard Sound)

Lawrence /Rise [Sten Dub 2] (Laid)

Move D /Got Thing (Philpot)

Ewan Jansen /Aqua Libre (Red Ember)

Brawther /Chains & Funk (Courtesey of Balance)

Meschi /Walker (Boe Recordings)

Life Recorder /Cycles (Appian Sounds)

Rai Scott /Do We Really Know (Ornate)

VR October 2027

AV recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHKGvOy-z4

Grandpa's Manbag - Rolling Alone.

Recorded at home last weekend - usual blend of of some promos, newly purchased and some older bits and pieces. Get comfortable for a longer session.

Claudio PRC /Ebony Feathers [Decontructed] (Delsin)

Polytunnel /Plan (Ornate)

Beat Pharmacy /Tape Syndicate (Silent Season)

Jamie Paul /Ozone (Stick To The Slug)

Ohm & Octal Industries /Left Side (Panther Fold)

Lozz HT /Some Signal (Supervision Records)

Satoshi Tomiie /Thursday, 2am [Ron T 7am Dub] (Abstract Architecture)

Life Recorder /Hope & Struggle (Visions)

Kenneth Graham /Mecca (We're Going Deep)

Bovill /Transfesa (Meanwhile)

Robert Leiner /To Places You've Never Been (Apollo)

Brian Kage & Luke Hess /Umbral (Michigander)

Luke Hess & Thor /3rd Wave (Æ Recordings)

Havantepe /Contrast (soon on Berg Audio)

Gradient /Layer Two (Alt Dub)

Joe Davies / Ton, Scheine, Sterben (Smallville)

PST /Flötjen (Kontra)

Stablo / 9998 A (Stablo)

Norm Talley /Tell Me (Thema)

Efdemin & GiGi FM /Anukari (The Third Room)

Arkajo /Consequence 1 (Aniara WL)

Pablo Bolivar & Kenneth Graham /Blacklight 1 (promo from Tim)

Resoe /Memory Line [Lawrence House Mix] (Kontakt Germany)

Billus /The Ring Road (Smallville)

Jorge Zamacona /Mosaic Efforts 2 (Mosaic)

Conforce /Black Stroke (Modelisme)

Dark Male /Taste of You feat. La Gosse (Abtrakt Dance)

Caspian R /Mainline (CMNT)

Dubrovnik (UK) /Motion [Ulf & Ralf's Leder Remix] [soon on Refraction]

747 /Tenke [Oxidized Edit] (Aquaregia)

Claudio PRC & Conceptual /Sykli III (012)

ASC /Saturate [Remix] (Arts Transparent)

Forest on Staysis /Open Ground (Orientation)

ASC /Hollow Point (Arts Transparent)

Altinbas /Notus (Observer Station)

Parallel 9 /Technique (Artless)

Eduardo De La Calle /My Own Transition (Analogue Solutions)

HAL /Parallax Attractor (Artless)

Aurora Halal /The Spell (Soon on Mutual Dreaming)

Artefakt /Blackwater (Delsin)

Sandwell District /Citrinitas Acid (Point of Departure)

Nthng /Orchid (Topo 2)

ASC /Slipstream (Spatial)

VR - October 2026

Verdant Session October - A solo show for me and this month a chance to show my love for deep techno from The Netherlands. Deep creative beats from The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and across the country have help to shape underground techno since the beginning (think of Eevolute) and continue to evolve and impress through younger imprints like Nous ‘Klaer with Eversines, Konduku and Human Space Machine. The sound of Netherlands as important to techno culture as Berlin and Detroit. The tracklist speaks for itself - me attempting to squeeze in many favourite & well collected producers from over the decades.

Bas Dobbelaer /Layers of Territory (Trule)

Tetelepta & Latumeten /I’m In My Zone (Kerring)

Aroy Dee /Kiss (NWAQ)

Crystal Maze /Photon Sphere (Bio Rhythm)

Peel Seamus /Artemis [Outbound] (Delsin)

Legowelt /Moves For Cee Cee (Clone SOS)

The Dead Bears /Trespassers [Dub] (NWAQ)

Ma Spaventi /Smooth Professor (M>O>S)

##### / ##### (Aryd) (not on label)

Arne Weinberg /The Circle (aDepth Audio)

VC118-A /Propulse (Tabernacle)

Duplex /Dr-Man (DPX Recordings)

Eversines /Assemble (WEX)

Lapien /Anvers (Bliq)

Deniro /Seavilisation (Clone SOS)

Maarten van der Vleuten /Summer of 909 (In Plain Sight)

Marcus Paulson /Sleeze Street (M>O>S)

Whoo Whoo /Untitled (Dance Arena Productions)

Random XS /Give Your Body (Djax Up Beats)

Inward Content /Continuum Mechanics (Meanwhile)

Stefan Vincent /Dissociation (Night Time Drama)

Human Space Machine /Lore (Nous ‘Klaer)

Joris Voorn /500 Models (Indigo Æra)

Parallel 9 /Vestras (Music Man)

Taupe /Vortex (Colours)

Konduku /Devre (Nous ‘Klaer)

Speedy J /Beam Me Up [Pegasus] (Warp)

Florence /Analogue Expressions (Eevolute Muzique)

2000 and One /Fokuz (Eevolute Muzique)

Erik Van Den Broek /010011 0110110 etc (De:tuned)

Vernon Felicity /Breaking Silence (M>O>S)

Orlando Voorn /Swingtech (Kompakt)

Lost Trax /Saturnian System (Delsin)

Alden Tyrell aka Ten Lardell /Deadly Mission to Kessell Sector (Anterspace)

Nthng /Heitt (Lobster Theremin)

VR October 2026

shares, comments and likes appreciated

July - always deep and unpredictable playing with Luke -

Kenneth Graham (WGD promo)

Polytunnel (Ornate Promo)

Extra (Kihon Ido)

Polygonia (Monument)

Rope walk - Al Wooton (Trule)

Pulse V - Peverelist (Livity Sound)

Psyance (plus 8)

Voyage (ITP Recordings)

Lord of the Isles (Far Blue)

James Shinra (20:20 Vision)

Appleblim (Sneaker Social Club)

Polygonia (Monument)

Terrence Dixon (Tresor)

Nico Del Sacco (Aquaregia)

Appleblim (Sneaker Social Club)

Inigo Kennedy (Token)

Picture (Short Span)

Dorisburg & Efraim Kent (Tikita)

Nitan (Unterton)

Neinzer (Deepmoves)

Donato Dozzy & Batu (K7)

SnPLO

SnPLO

Substance & Vainquer (Scion Versions)

Vann Bonn (Kontakt)

Function (Tresor)

Al Wooton (Trule)

2302 (Heaven Smile)

SnPLO

Stablo (Stablo)

Ian O’Brien (Ferox)

Eduardo De La Calle (Assemble Music)

SnPLO

Surgeon (Dynamic Tension)

Skudge (Korridor)

Luke Hess (Deeplabs)

Your Own Power - Priori - (NAFF/Courage)

Extended version of MCR bag for Dub Explorations

Arcarsenal [Finale Sessions]

Sascha Dive [Bondage]

Knowone [Knowone]

Taupe [Sungate]

El Choop & Tim Gee [D3fault Position]

Picture /yyyyyyyyy

Life Recorder [Grounded in Humanity]

CV Movement [Octal]

Soultek Paradigm [Iron Box Music]

Theorem [Minus]

Shinichi Atobe [DDS]

Satoshi Tomiie & Dopeus [Phonogramme]

Satoshi Tomiie (Ron Trent Remix) [Abstract Architecture]

Fabio Scalabroni [ROHS!]

Luke Hess & Sasha Dive (Delano Smith Remix) (Minimood)

Glob Deejay (NAFF)

David [Doddub]

2501 [Heaven Smile]

Dark Tape Vol 2

Deepchord [Special Dubplate]

Daniel[i] [Artless]

Dan Bell [Elevate]

Terciopeli Negro [The Rose Island]

Na Nich & Vero [Rhythm Büro]

Merv [Phonogramme]

Fabio Capelossi & Aekus (Tm Shuffle Remix) [Refraction]

747 [Aquaregia]

Traumprinz

Dorisburg [Nous K’laer]

Parallel 9 [Prime]

Freq (Kelli Hand Remix) [Matrix]

Havantepe [Vertex]

Altinbas [Observer Station]

Blasej Malinowski [Minimood Extra]

Forest on Stasys [Orientation]

Force Imerge [Countercharge]

Sleep D & Mosam Howieson [Butter Side Up]

Luigi Tozzi & Antonio Ruscito [Arts Transparent]

Introversion [Fundaments]

Thoughtforms Green

Syne 36 /Past Inside the Present]

Nthng [mörk]

Sun Electric [Music From Memory]

Shouts to all the heads who came out and especially Marta & Deniz :)

VR September 2026

Just a redo of some records played on Saturday at Palace Vinyl

Music from Gifted and Blessed, DJ Sprinkles, Solu Music w Kimblee, Loose Ends, C.L.A.W.S, Lord of the Isles, Pax Romax, Vectorvision / Claro Intelecto, Paul Bennet, Aroy Dee, Dave Hughes and Tasteful Nudes

Grandpa's Manbag and the Last Shapes of Summer

artists on this (approx sequence)

Artefakt & KMRU

Vera Logdanidi

LFO

Nthng

David Huisman

Havantepe

Lord of the Isles

Architectural

Artefakt

Konduku

Skee Mask x2

Fabrizio Lapiana

Farron

iNFO

Darkatek

Oscar Mulero & DVS1

Robert Hood (Subtance)

Eduardo De La Calle

Dorisburg

Djrum

Na Nich & Varo

Terciopelo Negro

Terrence Dixon

Function

Human Space Machine

Thoughtforms

Brainchild

VR August 2

From last weekend ....a Sunday / funday throwdown - deep house and Chi vibes morphed into a dubbier space ..... maybe i should have quit sooner?

Virgo /Nu Era (Mukatsuku)

Polytunnel /Rot (Soon on Ornate)

View to View /Dry Life [alternate] (Source)

MR Y.T /Pacific Jazz (Apollo)

Paradise’s Deep Groove /I love (Legal)

Duster Valentine/Hit Me From Behind (Youth)

M+M /Mystery (Lets Pet Puppies)

Chris Brann /What You Are (Guidance)

Takesu /2nd Straw (Dotei)

Abacus /Let Me Show You [Nyabingi Dub] (Phonogramme)

Danijel Kevic /Breaking Moment [Crybaby Remix by Ulf & Ralf] (Vibraphone)

Loose Fingers /303 Indigenous (NDATL)

David Agrella /Electric Nostalgia (Agrellomatik)

Extra /Going Clear (Kihon)

Marco Nega /Voodub (Batti Batti)

Small People /Say Want You Want to Say (Smallville)

Joe Davis /Something on my Mind (Smallville)

Ben Kaczor /This Blue Light (Small Steps)

Al Smith /Dream State (Chateau Chepere)

Motion Control /Digits 05 (Beatservice)

Satoshi Tomiie /48 Steps Deep (Phonogramme)

Trevor Deep Jnr /QWA (HPTY)

Pedro Capelossi & Aeikus /Hazen (arts)

Estray & Federsen /Dubalearic (Alt Dub)

Merv /Form 1 (Minimood)

Akufen /Architexture 1 (Bandcamp)

Amir Alexander /Event Horizon (LMD)

Haokah /Memory Trigger (Kapture)

Akufen /Skidoos (Force Inc)

Melchior Productions /Spirit of 23 (`My King Is Light)

VR August 2026

shares, loves, words appreciated

Mystery serving of lukewarm gloopy soup